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	<title>Nick Hammond</title>
	
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	<description>freelance web developer in Chandler, AZ</description>
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		<title>So you want to host in the cloud?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 04:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most notable cloud hosting providers at the moment are Amazon and Rackspace. Outside of the big guys there are quite a few other cloud hosting providers that are popping up. It&#8217;s a nice, assuming profitable niche that has been gaining some recent popularity.
Cloud hosting at the present time doesn&#8217;t just refer to a farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paleo blogs &amp; recipes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The paleo diet is a simple system that focuses on eating foods that our cavemen ancestors only had access to. In short it breaks down into meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts; and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.
When you change the way you eat or break down your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you use Gmail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google offers the best web-based email service out there with it&#8217;s large storage capacity, snappy ajax interface and threaded conversations.  I find myself tweaking my Gmail experience pretty often and looking through the labs section every few weeks to see what new features they are playing around with.
I&#8217;d like to share what I feel works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn iPhone development on iTunes U</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few courses on iTunes U that offer a great intro to iPhone application programming. If you don&#8217;t see iTunes U in iTunes go to preferences and check the box next to &#8220;iTunes U&#8221;. Now go into iTunes U and click the iTunes U directory and search for &#8220;iPhone&#8221; and subscribe to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find flights from your city to anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like to travel and are open to go about anywhere you should check out Kayak&#8217;s Buzz section. Kayak Buzz lets you pick a departing airport such as your current city and then a variety of categories for your destination such as:


World cities
United States
Europe
Caribbean
Mexico/C. America
South America
Asia
Africa
Australia/Oceania
Canada

There are a few other options such as max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice active purging</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another habit that I have been working on is active purging, i.e. getting rid of items that I haven't used in more than three months unless they are a seasonal item. ]]></description>
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		<title>Another one of those Bing Vs. Google posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t typically use bing but I needed to install flash on Internet explorer within my Virtual Machine so I typed &#8220;Adobe flash&#8221; into the location bar.  This brought up more than the typical google search does. Google typically gives you the most popular pages for that site and a brief intro to the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud based backup choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: I ended up going with CrashPlan because it&#8217;s only about $50/year for unlimited storage. Also, it versions all of your files so you can restore files directly from the application from &#8220;any&#8221; date. Been really happy with it so far and haven&#8217;t had any problems.
Initially I thought there was just dropbox.
Then when I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Pwgen to create secure passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice to have a fast utility to make secure passwords for you, if you don&#8217;t then you become lazy and create passwords like &#8220;dog123&#8243; or &#8220;qwert123&#8243;.
The pwgen command prints out a table of passwords which you can then copy a password from.  For security reasons it prints out multiple passwords just in case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save time with aliases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of commands that I run every day over the terminal. Once I see a command I run more than once a day or more often than usual I usually create a shortcut for it.  
Some of these shortcuts are everything from restarting apache, cd&#8217;ing to my web root, ssh&#8217;ing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Linux Mint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Linux Mint since I got back from Europe(August 2009).  Overall I&#8217;ve been pretty happy with the Operating System.
On a day to day basis my must have applications are a terminal, vim, and a browser(usually Chrome).  Sometimes I jump into some image editing software but for the most part I&#8217;m editing code and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Code Camp Recap 2009</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/11/07/desert-code-camp-recap-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cucumber]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from this year&#8217;s Desert Code Camp at Devry in Phoenix.  Overall the event was pretty good, got to meet some new people that aren&#8217;t at the usual events and listen to topics that aren&#8217;t discussed as often.  It&#8217;s also nice to have an event strictly focused on coding since I don&#8217;t believe [...]]]></description>
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